Since 1998, Nickelodeon has aired a total of 8 seasons - the ninth being ongoing - (plus one series of 10 Oh Yeah! shorts) with currently 163[1]Fairly OddParents productions, including ten Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts, 152 television episodes, nine television movies and three Jimmy Timmy television movies.

Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998-2001)

The Fairly OddParents's first premiered as Oh Yeah! cartoon shorts. The Fairly OddParents first premiered on September 4, 1998 with the episode, "The Fairly OddParents!", plus the first appearance of Timmy Turner and his fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda, as well as his evil babysitter Vicky and her Timmy-loving little sister, Tootie. The realm of Fairy World was also introduced, along with Jorgen von Strangle, the self-proclaimed "toughest fairy in the universe", and his girlfriend the Tooth Fairy. Santa Claus made his first appearance, as did the Crimson Chin. Timmy's unnamed parents, Mom and Dad, were also recurring characters, but they had a significantly different character design and their faces were never revealed.

The shorts season ended on March 23, 2001 with the short, "Super Humor", a week before the official series began. From 2001-2004 9 out of 10 shorts were aired on Nickelodeon with Tara Strong dubbing over Mary Kay Bergman's Timmy Turner's voice. Each short has been released as a special DVD on several Fairly OddParents DVDs.

The Fairly OddParents

The Fairly OddParents, sometimes simply called FOP or the main series, debuted as a Nicktoon in March 2001. The debut episodes were The Big Problem! and Power Mad!. The series is currently on Season 9.

Season 1 (2001)

The first season of The Fairly OddParents debuted on March 30, 2001 with the episodes "The Big Problem" and "Power Mad". Among the most significant changes made to the show between the Oh Yeah! Cartoons era and the main series is improved animation, Tara Strong voicing Timmy Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Turner's full body and faces being visible and slightly changed from their original appearance, and Cosmo becoming gradually dumber with a different sounding voice. The first season also introduced a number of recurring side characters who would gain prominence on the show, including Timmy's fairy obsessed teacher Mr. Crocker, his classmates and friends A.J. and Chester McBadbat, popular girl Trixie Tang who would become another love interest for Timmy, alien prince Mark Chang, the freakishly large gray-skinned school bully, Francis, and an expanded universe with the Crimson Chin comics.

Season 3 (2002-2003)

This season started with the episode "Ruled Out" and featured the first made for TV movie, "Abra-Catastrophe!". It also featured a number of other episodes which explore the back stories of certain characters, such as "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker", as well as a holiday special for Valentine's Day called "Love Struck!. Some more minor characters, such as Gary the imaginary friend, were introduced in this season.

Season 6 (2008-2009)

The sixth season begun with the TV movie Fairly Odd Baby, which gave new life to both the show and a new character: Cosmo and Wanda's baby, Poof, the first fairy baby born in thousands of years. During this season, new episode batches began to premiere separately, usually with one 12-minute part debuting on one day, then being re-run after the next day's debuting episode. The season went into short hiatuses in June, July, and after the special Merry Wishmas. The season officially ended with the three hour TV special Wishology, which introduced a number of one-time characters and villains.

Season 7 (2009-2012)

The seventh season debuted on July 10, 2009 with the episode Anti-Poof, a month after the previous season ended. The season ended on the 5th of August, 2012, with the premiere of Farm Pit in the United States. In other countries, this episode aired one year before. This season introduced Foop, Poof's Anti-Fairy counterpart, as a recurring villain in three different episodes including his introduction special. Mr. Turner's workplace was also established to be a pencil factory, and his boss Mr. Ed Leadly was introduced. Poof starts attending a magic pre-school at the end of the season along with Foop, and their teacher is Mrs. Powers.

This season was ordered after Fairly Odd Baby pulled in over 8.8 million viewers during its premiere.

Season 9 (2013-2015)

Season 9 was confirmed on March 14, 2012. This season introduced a new character, Sparky, a fairy dog, and it consisted of 26 episodes. The season premiere episode, "Fairly OddPet", aired on March 23, 2013. This is the first season to have regular-length episodes produced natively in high definition. This is also the first season to include Poof in the opening sequence.

Specials

Fairly OddParents/Jimmy Neutron Crossovers

A series of three different crossovers between The Fairly OddParents and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius were produced as part of seasons four and five. They are counted as numbers 78, 79, and 80 in production order respectively, as they were only counted in the total production numbers after the series had been revived after the first cancellation with Fairly Odd Baby (Ep 81-82). Much like most other specials, none of the events that take place in these cross overs effect the main series, although in the last Jimmy Timmy Power Hour, Chester and A.J. are aware of the existence of fairies which is a direct contradiction to the series and Da Rules.

Live-Action Movies

As part of the tenth anniversary of "The Fairly OddParents", a live action television movie called "A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!" aired on July 9, 2011[4] This special showed the lives of many Fairly OddParents characters thirteen years in the future, and focused around Timmy Turner making a decision to keep his fairies or fall in love with Tootie.

Nickelodeon specials

Characters from The Fairly OddParents have also been featured in a number of cross-over specials with other Nicktoons, as well as a revival special aired on July 7, 2007 (7/7/7) called the "77 Secrets of The Fairly OddParents Revealed!" which revealed, among other things, the full names of some characters, various trivia on the show and it's production, and most notably, the upcoming birth of Cosmo and Wanda's son, Poof, and the revival of the show in 2008.

Butch Hartman gives you an insider look at the process he and the creative team behind "The Fairly OddParents" went through in creating the series newest star, Sparky. Butch will show you how Sparky went from just an idea to the loveable dog you see on TV.